By Carol Mason
ISBN-10: 1438457170
ISBN-13: 9781438457178
ISBN-10: 1438457189
ISBN-13: 9781438457185
By exploring the scandal-filled lives of 4 Oklahomans, this ebook demonstrates how unqueering operates in a conservative American context. Carol Mason weaves a narrative approximately how homogenizing, antigay principles evolve from iteration to iteration in order that they in attaining specific monetary, imperial, racial, and gendered targets. utilizing attractive and obtainable remark on antigay crusaders (Sally Kern and Anita Bryant) and queer lecturers disregarded from their positions (Billy James Hargis and Bruce Goff), Mason illustrates how the lives of those figures characterize paradigmatic moments in conservative confrontations with queers and aid us to appreciate the conflation of terrorism with homosexuality, which dates again to the McCarthy era.
Carol Mason is Professor of Gender and Women’s reviews on the college of Kentucky. She is the writer of Killing for all times: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-Life Politics and Reading Appalachia from Left to correct: Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy.
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